BIBLIOTECA VIRTUAL DEL PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS

The Virtual Library of the Principality of Asturias has been created for the more
effective dissemination, through the Internet, and the digital conservation of the extremely rich bibliographic
heritage conserved in the libraries of Asturias.

Through the allocation of metadata to the records, it will be possible to ensure
the maximum visibility of each of the works scanned so that researchers and other interested parties can access
these holdings over the Internet and the work(s) they wish to find directly by using the best-known search engines
and browsers.

Scanning the documents allows us to contribute to the conservation of those whose
state of repair make direct manipulation inadvisable, for example manuscripts or items printed on cellulose-based
paper, a material whose acidic nature suffers serious impairment as time goes by.

The Virtual Library of the Principality of Asturias is a new step forward in a
wide-ranging project for digital accessibility to the historical bibliographic collections of Asturias and is
in line with the actions of the Ministry of Culture to promote the creation of within a standardized framework,
so as to facilitate shared access to the Bibliographic Heritage of Spain.